MVRF Announces 2013-2014 Grant Recipients


The Macula Vision Research Foundation (MVRF) recently announced its grant award recipients for macular degeneration and other retinal diseases research.

The grants are in the amount of $100,000 a year for three years. Basically, the grants will be used to subsidize research projects to search for treatments and cures for degenerative eye diseases. Most of the recipients are doctors and researchers in the field of medicine.


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Federal Programs Related to - Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments Research

Programs involved in the systematic study of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect the organ of vision. Blindness Research; Glaucoma Research; Macular Degeneration Research; Retinitis Pigmentosa Research

Federal Programs Related to - Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking, General/Other

Private nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is to promote the practice of charitable giving and volunteering or to represent and serve a wide range of philanthropic and charitable institutions.


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